Recommendations TVs
The X Factor (en)
The X Factor is a New Zealand television reality music competition, originating from the original UK series and based on the Australian The X Factor production format. The first series premiered on the TV3 channel on 21 April 2013, with regular Sunday and Monday screenings weekly. The show is open to anyone aged 14 and over, and the winner will be signed to Sony Music Entertainment New Zealand. The contestants are split into the show's four traditional categories: Boys, Girls, Over-25s and Groups. The first series is hosted by Dominic Bowden, with recording artists Daniel Bedingfield, Melanie Blatt, Ruby Frost and Stan Walker, as the show's four judges. In early 2013, a pre-audition tour of 27 towns and cities across New Zealand was held to find the contestants for the judges auditions. Successful contestants from the judges auditions then progressed to the bootcamp round filmed in March.
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky (ja)
Shibusawa Eiichi was born in 1840 to a farmer’s family. He grew up helping his family with work, which was to manufacture and sell indigo production and also silk farming. He left his hometown at the age of 23 and began working for the government. He later traveled to Paris and learned about banking. Upon his return to Japan, he helped build up the first modern bank in Japan. He eventually became a founder or supporter to about 500 companies and was involved with about 600 public services, including education for women.
Virile (fr)
The ideal of masculinity - as unattainable as it is frustrating - is in crisis. The series Virile delves into the history and myths of masculinity with humour and wit.
Sara Dane (en)
Sara Dane is a 1982 Australian television miniseries about a woman transported from England to Australia for a crime she did not commit.
The 1940's House (en)
The 1940s House is a British historical reality television programme made by Wall to Wall/Channel 4 in 2001 about a modern family that tries to the live as a typical middle-class family in London during The Blitz of World War II. It was shown on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom in 2001, and in 2002 on PBS in the United States and ABC Television in Australia. It also aired on TVNZ in New Zealand. The series was narrated in the UK by Geoffrey Palmer.
SUSPEKT (da)
À bout portant (fr)
Trailermannen (no)
Face and Back (ar)
After stealing money from his company and running away, Jamal starts a medical practice under a fake name, but the nurse he hires has a secret of her own.
Elbet Bir Gün (tr)
Feride changed her name to Gizem after running away from her brother-in-law, Cemil out of fear for her life. The young woman who has built a new life for herself has a happy marriage. Gizem learns that her whole family has been killed in a TV show and that Cemil is still after her and her older sister Nesime who has fled with her lover. Nesime and Feride's paths cross again after many years - While Gizem struggles so that her and her sister's true identities are not revealed, her husband Mehmet has secrets from his past that he hides from his wife.
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Triple Fling (ko)
Lee Se Hee never thought she'd be part of the popular clique in High School, neither did she expect herself to be in a love square with 3 very attractive popular guys! Who is she going to choose?
The Covenant (The Permissible Speech) (ar)
The story of the Covenant (العهد) unfolds in a fantasy world in an unset time and place, in an atmosphere of excitement, crime, horror and drama blended with magic and fantasy. The story of 3 small neighbouring villages and the struggles among the members of Aldiabh family to gain control over the villages and the Covenant which sets the rules of the land. The Family do not hesitate at anything in order to reach their goals, lying, ploting, stealing and even killing the people closest to them.
Megapolis: The Ancient World (fr)
Athens, Alexandria, Tikal and Rome: these legendary cities are some of the world's most famous archaeological sites. And yet, they still have not revealed all their secrets. The ambition of this series is to resuscitate the first megalopolises of universal history.
NFL: The Grind (en)
A weekly destination for the final word on the week in football, as well as an up close and personal, inside look at life in the NFL – on and off the field – across the endurance test that is the NFL season.